I was thinking maybe from The Martian Chronicles, but I’m not coming up with an O name.
I was thinking of Burrough’s Barsoom series, with same results.
All right, here we go. Having seen no correct answers, I am
Oscar Jensen
Venus colonial, member of the Space Patrol, Passed Cadet, and final commander of the PRS Astarte, the original manned Venus exploration ship, and primary character (along with viewpoint character Matt Dodson, “Tex” Jarman, and Ganymedean Pierre “Pete” Armand) in Robert A. Heinlein’s 1948 juvenile novel Space Cadet.
I await your judgment on suitability.
Yes, I’ve read the book several times and recognize the character name, although I wouldn’t have remembered it in a million, well, maybe half a million years. Good one, SunUp!
I’ve read the book several times, but don’t remember any of the characters’ names. Obviously time to read it again.
Other than the unfortunate lack of female cadets, and how wrong it is about conditions on the surface of Venus, I’d say it holds up pretty well.
Read it 45 or so yers ago, but don’t remember.
Is that the one with the “dragon” who goes by the name Sir Isaac Newton? And/or starts out with the main character getting a phone call whilst out riding his horse? I also seem to recall that he thinks the beds at the academy aren’t as comfortable as the “hydraulic bed” he has at home.
Good choice, SunUp!! I don’t remember ever reading that one.
You’re thinking of Between Planets, set largely on Venus, where the main character, Don Harvey, is caught up in an interplanetary war where colonies on Venus and Mars rebel against a tyrannical government on Earth.
I almost think that Between Planets could have been set in the same universe as Space Cadet, had the “Revolt of the Colonels” in the latter book succeeded rather than failed. (It’s detailed in the short story “The Long Watch”, but retconned into his Future History rather than in the Space Cadet universe.)
Well, I’ve never read any of Heinlein’s YA stuff, so I’d never have gotten that (I was racking my brain for an “O” character from Lewis’s space trilogy). But he clearly meets the criteria for notability, so well done, SunUp!
Agreed!
All right, well, let’s get the next round underway.
I am
M
Bring on the IQs!
IQs:
- Were you Larry Hagman’s mom?
- Were you the mother of one of the group Wilson Phillips?
- Do “I love the dear silver that shines in your hair”?
IQs:
1. Did the TV show you created begin its 50th season last Saturday night?
2. Do you play a telepathic telekinetic with a liking for frozen waffles?
3. Yo, were you the 13th president of the United States?
Nicely done, @SunUp!
IQs:
- Were your parents in a band called “The Daddy Warbucks”?
- Are you part of the Winslow family?
- Were you originally written as a man but later portrayed by a woman?
Take a DQ.
I am not… Mama Cass Elliot?
Take a DQ.
I am not Lorne Michaels.
I am not Millie Bobby Brown.
I am not Millard Filmore.
Take 3 DQs.
A clean sweep!
IQs:
1. Did you have “binders full of women”?
2. Did you “fly like paper, get high like planes”?
3. Are your notebooks still radioactive?
- Marshall Mathers
- Marmaduke
- M, boss of James Bond
DQs:
- Are you human?
- Are you male?
- Created before 1950?
#1 was Mary Martin.
#2. You were so close, right band, but Michelle Phillips.
#3. is Mother Machree.
DQs:
- Real?
- Last name starts with M?
1 DQ reserved.